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Bethwine. World English Historical Dictionary

Bethwine. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1888, rev. 2024. Bethwine Also bethwyn, bethwind. [Of unknown derivation: the second element is perh. wind: the whole looks like a perversion of bend-with or bind-with.] A name given locally to various twining plants: a. The Great Hedge Convolvulus (C. sepium). b. The Bear-bind (Polygonum Convolvulus). c. The Traveller’s Joy (Clematis Vitalba).

1 1609.  C. Butler, Fem. Mon. (1623), iii. F iij. And then with a small pliant Garth or Belt of Bethwyn, Bramble, Brier, or the like, gird the Hackle close to the Hiue.

2 1863.  Kingsley, Water Bab. (1878), 187. There was no more hope of rooting out them than of rooting out peth-winds [convolvulus].

3 1875.  Parish, Sussex Gloss., Bethwine, the wild clematis.

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